Firearms officers' identities will be kept secret during trials to stop others being forced into hiding: Home Secretary unveils new proposals after cop who shot Chris Kaba fled home with £10k bounty o

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced firearms officers will have their identities kept secret during criminal trials involving police shootings after an armed sergeant was found not guilty of murdering Chris Kaba. Chris Kaba was shot through the windscreen of a car in South London on September 5, 2022 - armed police officer Martyn Blake was charged with his murder but acquitted this week Senior former police officers had earlier today added to growing anger over the prosecution of 40-year-old Mr Blake and also how he could yet face the sack despite being acquitted. Chris Kaba is seen sat inside an Audi Q8 in Streatham, South London, on September 5, 2022 A computer generated image issued by the Crown Prosecution Service of a reconstruction shown to the court at the Old Bailey of the position of two firearms officers in front of the Audi Current Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is among the policing leaders to have called the current accountability system 'broken' and expressed concerns it might lead to a loss of morale among firearms officers. Former senior Metropolitan Police officers Lord Blair and Neil Basu have today criticised the decision to charge Martyn Blake, now acquitted, with Chris Basu's murder Forensics officers at the shooting scene in Streatham, South London, on September 6, 2022 Had he not been killed, Mr Kaba would have stood trial at the Old Bailey for the attempted murder of Brandon Malutshi who survived a nightclub shooting on August 30, 2022 But he was a 'core member' of one of London's most dangerous criminal gangs and was allegedly directly linked to two shootings in the six days before he was shot dead by police, a court revealed to the public after lifting reporting restrictions.